Necessary Looking

Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,500+ posts...This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी"...George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"... श्रीमंत बाळासाहेब पंतप्रतिनिधी : "बहुश्रुतता असल्याशिवाय सुसंस्कृतता नाही"

Thursday, February 01, 2007

It’s because we no longer have literature

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In my childhood, before the age of TV, feud was the second most effective crowd puller. First of course was a death in the neighbourhood. ...
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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Is it all only PERFORMANCE?

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Every winter, one is subject to various film award ceremonies. In India there are by dozens and in US there are a few. They all look same to...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Commies were coming.And so are Islamists. Some day Indians?

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Our democratic rulers really know how to rule us. Gore Vidal : “ Fifty years ago, Harry Truman replaced the old republic with a national-se...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Honey, I shrunk the Jurassic Park

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Astrophysicist Sir Martin Rees warns: "What happens here on Earth, in this century, could conceivably make the difference between a nea...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

Smell the flowers along the way

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Walter Hagen : "You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the wa...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Being symbiotic with people

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In Indian epic Mahabharata , dog is part of a very moving story. After fighting bloodiest battle of the time, Pandavas, the victors, began t...
Sunday, January 14, 2007

Free Tagore and Sane-guruji

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Indian copyright laws were changed to enable Santiniketan to hold on to the rights of the literary works of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tago...

All my genius is in my nostrils

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Artist : George Price Publication: The New Yorker 7 Nov 1936 Friedrich Nietzsche : "All my genius is in my nostrils." Mine too! N...

Anti incumbency

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We Indians are very proud of our democracy. Even author Pankaj Mishra who otherwise is so scathing about the country finds elections a some...

Oh, hell

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In Marathi literature, poet the late B S Mardhekar बा. सी. मर्ढेकर is next to only the giants - saint-poets - Dnyaneshwar, Eknath, Tukaram ...
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